You need to phone the techs at ipage and have them increase the php to 5.3.2 and the mySQL to 5.1.13. The server cannot read the moodle code, so it does not let you login. If they cannot do it, you need to get a different host. I suggest Host Gator. I had to switch because of the same problem and everything works nicely now and it can handle 7 blocks of 30 chemistry students.

says it installs via FTP version 2.3.2 of Moodle. FTP has been known to hicup and not transfer all files ... plus permissions on files/folders have to be set appropriately for the hosting providers system (not all, of which, are alike).

Also says to contact them if there are issues. Now I know that means you are now in the middle ... between hosting provider and simple scripts/community support and then using this community for support.

Hmmmmm ... not a good position to be in. The only persons here that would know for sure would have to have used the same script with the same hosting provider. The rest of us can only provide best/educated guess based upon information shared/provided. Don't be surprised if there are more questions than answers here because of that.

I've actually dug in deeply on iPage's moodle issue and it turns out that it's the binlog_format cannot be changed to mixed or row.

I ended up rewriting all references of READ COMMITTED to REPEATABLE READ and that at least got the install working!

Here's my thread response on a different thread below. If anyone needs help I could package the 2.6.1 version I'm using on iPage now and make available!

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This was a big help getting installs to work on version 2.0+ on a hosted mysql environment where I couldn't set session or globals for my instance (iPage.com). I would note that I couldn't get things working with editing just the single file. I ended up editing them with a one-liner perl script.

James could you please please package the 2.6.1 for me? I have tried to get this to work but have failed. I am sure your instructions above is complete but to a novice like me it is like being in summer school for the advance.